Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Greece.

📋 Description

• Manage software engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, providing feedback, career development, and structured growth plans.

• Take ownership of performance management, encompassing objectives, formal reviews, promotion cases, and challenging performance discussions.

• Lead the hiring process, from defining capability needs to conducting interviews and making final hiring decisions.

• Assist new engineers with a structured onboarding process and during their probationary period.

• Guide engineers towards senior individual-contributor and technical leadership career paths.

• Utilize throughput, cycle time, DORA metrics, and incident trends to identify issues related to personnel, capabilities, and staffing.

• Collaborate with technical leaders and engineering functions to ensure teams possess the necessary skills, capacity, and support.

• Maintain technical involvement to challenge estimates, comprehend technical risks, and assess engineering practices.

• Promote healthy operational practices, including the fair distribution of on-call responsibilities.

• Identify capability gaps, performance risks, engagement challenges, and retention threats, and communicate these to engineering leadership.

• Drive continuous improvement by transforming identified issues into measurable actions.

• Lead initiatives that enhance developer enablement, operational maturity, internal automation, security, or cloud efficiency.

• Contribute to establishing consistent engineering management standards across a distributed organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software engineering experience.

• At least 3 years of genuine line management experience with software engineers.

• Proven track record of managing one-on-ones, performance reviews, career development, hiring, and performance management.

• Experience in making challenging personnel decisions, including handling underperformance and, when necessary, exits.

• A strong history of developing engineers into more senior roles, technical leadership positions, or expanded areas of responsibility.

• Solid technical foundation to evaluate engineering quality and engage credibly in discussions about architecture, cloud systems, delivery practices, and operational risks.

• Familiarity with modern cloud-native engineering environments, CI/CD practices, and production software operations.

• Working knowledge of incidents, on-call practices, observability, and production reliability.

• Familiarity with modern AI-enabled or LLM-based products and engineering environments.

• Experience utilizing engineering metrics and delivery data to pinpoint problems and guide management decisions.

• Ability to balance empathy and support with clear expectations, accountability, and direct feedback.

• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to engage with engineering, product, and operational stakeholders.

• Fluent in English with experience working effectively in distributed or international teams.

• Experience in regulated, high-availability, or enterprise environments such as fintech, banking, telecommunications, or similar fields is highly valued.

• Strong written and spoken English skills (C1+).

• Based within the European Union and able to work on a B2B contract.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work within the European Union.

• Long-term B2B engagement.

• More than 20 days of paid time off.

• Apple equipment provided.

• Training and professional development budget.

• Senior engineering leadership role with significant responsibility for people development and team effectiveness.

• Opportunity to collaborate with experienced engineers in building modern cloud and AI-enabled products.

• International and distributed engineering environment.

• Considerable scope to influence engineering practices beyond your immediate team.

• Opportunity to lead cross-functional initiatives with a noticeable organizational impact.

• Collaborative atmosphere working alongside senior technical and engineering leadership.